Jeff on The Huffington Post

Where Are the Cops on Wall Street?
This post is adapted from a speech delivered Nov. 2, 2010, to more than 300 financial regulators and Wall Street executives during a panel discussion entitled “Financial Crisis and Financial Crimes” at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.Read post…

Obama and the Rule of Law
Long silent and now contradictory, President Obama needs to deliver a clarifying speech about our financial markets and the rule of law. Speaking in Kansas on December 6, he said, “Too often, we’ve seen Wall Street firms violating major anti-fraud laws because the penalties are too weak and there’s no price for being a repeat offender.”Read post…

The Glacial Response of the S.E.C. to the Rise of High-Speed Trading and Market Volatility
It’s bad enough that the Justice Department never indicted a single Wall Street executive for the fraud associated with the financial crisis, leaving it to the S.E.C. to wrist-slap a few financiers. Now, after a year in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average gyrated drunkenly, it’s obvious where lax enforcement is taking us.Read post…

Videos

Connaughton: So Much Time Is Spent on Reelection

The Rise of the Investor Super PAC: Jeff C. on WSJ Live

Why Wall Street Always Wins: Jeff C. on WSJ Live

The Daily Show: Ted Kaufman says America’s founders designed the Senate to be the place where everything stopped.

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Testimonials

"It is in fact one of the best books on how corporate criminals manipulate the system to get away with their crimes."— Editor, "Payoff in the Pit of Plutocracy," Corporate Crime Reporter

"For a compelling account of how the financial lobby works, both in general and in this instance, look for a forthcoming book by Jeff Connaughton, former chief of staff to former Senator Ted Kaufman of Delaware."— Simon Johnson, Economix, New York Times

"Jeff is one of the smartest guys on the Hill and is particularly strong on issues surrounding Wall Street and the regulatory system."— Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com

"This is the most honest book I’ve read about Washington in years – it really tells it like it is."— Andrew Cockburn

"Jeff Connaughton has just published a page-turning memoir that is also a damning critique of how Wall Street operates, the political capture of Washington, and our collective failure to reform finance in the past four years. The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins, is the perfect antidote to disinformation put about by global megabanks and their friends."— Simon Johnson, "One Man Against the Wall Street Lobby," Huffington Post

You want the real skinny on HFT and the SEC? Read The Payoff. This guy [Jeff Connaughton] worked with Sen Kaufman, our champ!— Jim Cramer, via Twitter